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Article: Life is not a cabaret
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- September 24, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Village Voice Sep 24, 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IT'S TOUGH to play the detached aesthete, the Huysmansesque dandy, when your paramours family threatens to kill you.
Momus is a small, dark, unidentified object crossing the skies, barely visible, sometimes briefly orbiting on the fringes of current musical trends. The Pet Shop Boys climbed the charts with their elegant technopop? Momus's equally brilliant Don't Stop the Nht album barely registered as a blip on the fringe of mass culture in 1989. Pulp scored with their acerbic melodramas? Momus wrote similar ones years ago-and seven years back, Jarvis Cocker was asking him to produce his then unknown band.
Over a dozen years and as many records, Nick Currie, a/k/a Momus, has touched on ...